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The current obsession with the end of the millennium illustrates the enduring power of the idea of endings. This fascination cannot be simply dismissed as faulty logic, a form of madness, or a primitive survival of childish thinking. Opening a path of understanding between ancient conceptions of meaning and the sceptical predicates of modern science, this work aims to show how ordinary and extraordinary endings are inherent in the narrative structure of human experience and the sedimentation of that experience as historical meaning.

Product Details

• Published on: 1999-12-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 212 pages

About the Author
PAUL CORCORAN is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. He is the author of Before Marx: Socialism and Communism in France, 1830-48.